244 THE UNIVERSE 



Christ when he was weary and famished in the 

 wilderness. They carried John in the spirit to the 

 great and high mountain in the sun which was to 

 him a new heaven and a new earth and showed him 

 the great city of God, and they have borne mil- 

 lions of bright human spirits along the electric 

 highways of the skies to the celestial mansions of 

 the blest. So will they wait and guide us through 

 the dusky borders of mortality, along the shining 

 pathway to the sun, and welcome us to the delights 

 of its celestial cities. And we shall see in the hour 

 of dissolution the ladder Jacob saw reaching from 

 earth to heaven on which the angels ascend and 

 descend, and we shall see the vision martyred Stephen 

 saw when the heavens opened, and the vision St. 

 John saw when he gazed on the New Jerusaleum. 



And this electric stairway between heaven and 

 earth is so real, sure and strong, that the weakest 

 spirit cannot lose its way or stumble or fall. It 

 has the lightness of air and the strength of adamant 

 and is as eternal as the stars. Millions of millions 

 have trod its pathway of viewless power that no 

 steel or adamant could brake, and none have failed 

 to reach the heaven that it links to earth. 



The creature whose intelligence measures the pul- 

 sations of molecules and unravels the secret of the 

 whirling nebuke is no creature of a day, but the child 

 of the universe, the heir of all the ages, in whose 

 making and perfection is found the consummation of 

 God's creative work. 



God is a spirit and man is a spirit, and spirit 

 power is the supreme sovereignty of the universe. 

 And the soul of man can command electric energy 

 to bear it with swift wings and tireless feet along 



